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More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked (hackernoon.com)
Jeff Kao from Hacker Noon used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017 and found that at least 1.3 million pro-repeal net neutrality comments were faked. From the report: NY Attorney General Schneiderman estimated that hundreds of thousands of Americans' identities were stolen and used in spam campaigns that support repealing net neutrality. My research found at least 1.3 million fake pro-repeal comments, with suspicions about many more. In fact, the sum of fake pro-repeal comments in the proceeding may number in the millions. In this post, I will point out one particularly egregious spambot submission, make the case that there are likely many more pro-repeal spambots yet to be confirmed, and estimate the public position on net neutrality in the "organic" public submissions. [The key findings include:]
1. One pro-repeal spam campaign used mail-merge to disguise 1.3 million comments as unique grassroots submissions.
2. There were likely multiple other campaigns aimed at injecting what may total several million pro-repeal comments into the system.
3. It's highly likely that more than 99% of the truly unique comments were in favor of keeping net neutrality.
1. One pro-repeal spam campaign used mail-merge to disguise 1.3 million comments as unique grassroots submissions.
2. There were likely multiple other campaigns aimed at injecting what may total several million pro-repeal comments into the system.
3. It's highly likely that more than 99% of the truly unique comments were in favor of keeping net neutrality.
"big business" doesn't want this (I would say that companies like Facebook (500bn+ market cap as of right now) and Google (700bn+ market cap) are more than big enough to quality as "big business".
The opposition is comming from one type of company specifically and that is the Pay TV industry. Companies that distribute linear TV channels via cable, satellite, fiber or other technologies hate net neutrality because the Internet makes it possible to distribute content easily and bypass these gatekeepers and their dinosaur business model.
The same thing happened in Australia at the last federal elections where Rupert Murdoch (who's empire has control over Foxtel, the main Pay TV company in Australia) used the front pages of his newspapers to declare war on the fiber-to-the-premises National Broadband Network because such a network would have been a big threat to Foxtel.
There's no comparison: Trump is a complete nutjob.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Alex Jones? The guy who says juice boxes are turning kids gay? Sorry but I'll pass.
No, but the likelihood of finding truth on that site approaches zero.
There is almost no real racism in the US,
Fuck you, and also, fuck you.
We've had equality since about 1991 when Clarence Thomas was appointed to the supreme court.
You're either a compleat idiot or a racist piece of shit. There's no third way, unless it's both.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Really? The free market didn't bust up the trusts at the beginning of the 1900s. It didn't break up the AT&T monopoly. It failed to break up the crock that is Microsoft. And now it is failing to prevent concentration of owners of national media given the latest shit storm from the FCC and Congress. Preventing the AT&T's current merger is no coup, it is merely because the Knob in the oval office doesn't like CNN because they aren't as sycophantic as Fox, so that is not for principled reasons but for one of the most base examples of political stupidity.